Newt imploding all across the map...

[Jen]

Newt needs to get a grip.
Newt is the one candidate who actually has a plan that's written out in detail and would probably go a long way to help us get economically better. Unfortunately, his emotional reactions are a little loose-cannonish.

I wish the measured and Presidential Romney had as many brilliant ideas as Newt has........ a combination of the two would be exactly what this country needs (and I don't mean President/ VP........ that wouldn't work well I don't think).

 

[GordonGecko]

Nevada Republican Presidential Caucus Las Vegas Review-Journal Romney 45, Gingrich 25, Santorum 11, Paul 9

Romney +20


Michigan Republican Presidential Primary Rasmussen Reports Romney 38, Gingrich 23, Paul 14, Santorum 17

Romney +15

Arizona Republican Presidential Primary Rasmussen Reports Romney 48, Gingrich 24, Santorum 13, Paul 6

Romney +24

 

[Gramps]

I think he imploded when he tossed his hat into the ring. He just left too many "iffy" doubts about his integrity in his wake of politicking. I do halfway believe that the GOP race will be one of those "It ain't over "til it's over" things but that Mitt will prevail.

I look at things differently than many people do. I figure that if I live long enough I can outlast anyone who gets elected to public office and if I don't live long enough it doesn't make much difference. Let's see, since my birth there've been quite a few come and/or go; Coolidge, Hoover, FDR, Truman, Ike, JFK, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush and Obama. With all of the negative rhetoric I've heard through the years about the nation falling apart, WELL the nation and I still are getting by and most of them are six feet under which actually proves one thing -- death for mortals is inevitable but doesn't necessarily apply to nations. The English crown has been around longer than dirt (which suggests they must've did something right all of those years) and with our determination to do at least as well as they, if not better, the odds are pretty good we'll see a 100th, if not a 200th president. How about that?

Gramps

 

[GordonGecko]

I'm an America-optimist, Gramps....unlike so many of the Hard Hard Right who dream of Balkanization at best, "libertarian" anarchy at worst. They hate the current USA, some for political, some for racial reasons and would prefer the old Vietnam War line "We had to destroy the village in order to save it" theory.

One thing history of this country shows....the "conservative" position always loses. Today's mainstream conservative would be called a "liberal" about the time you were in high school....a "Red" when you were born. Even Republicans can't openly call for scrapping Social Security and rolling back all labor and industrial laws to the 1890s. (Some of the radical ideologues do...but not ambitious Repubs).

Every time the "status quo" position (the essential element of "conservative" thinking) has lost the fight....every time. Ike wasn't that much more to the Right of Truman.....Nixon not that much more to Johnson (domestically)....Reagan agreed to raise taxes, appointed O'Connor, and eventually signed treaties with the Soviets.....Dubya had to sell himself as a "COMPASSIONATE conservative" to even stand a chance.....McCain promoted his "Maverick'ness" (i.e. ability to be sane and moderate).....and now they're nominating a "Massachusetts liberal who created a universal health care system that 'Commie' Obama imitated".

Even the Tea Party was ignored and is now shown to be toothless and merely repackaged Republicans who didn't want anybody to know they supported Dubya.

And if Romney is elected....conservatism will lose again, even as he promises them the Moon (Not literally...that was Gingrich. )